I still think Aziza in the Richmond is the move. Get the basteeya.
Maya · Dinner plans · Apr 18, 2025 at 6:42 PMSearch every iMessage on your Mac.
Find the person, fact, or message you remember, even when you do not remember the exact words. Every result links back to the original conversation.
Open source · macOS · no account · manual updates
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Maya was talking about a Moroccan place out in the Richmond last week.
Jordan · Weekend plans · Jan 7, 2024 at 11:09 AMWhat it does
OpenFolio turns years of messages into a private, searchable archive. It finds evidence. It does not invent answers or score relationships.
How it works
Remember. Find. Verify.
- 01
Remember
Describe a phrase, place, plan, or person—even if you do not remember the exact words.
- 02
Find
Review ranked message, person, and conversation matches from your local archive.
- 03
Verify
Open the cited message in context. The source stays visible; OpenFolio does not invent an answer.
The app
Search comes first.
People organize memory. Conversations preserve evidence. Year in review creates reflection.
Search
Search with the words you remember. OpenFolio ranks exact and meaning-based matches from your local archive.
People
Browse the people in your history, then search every conversation connected to one person.
Conversations
Open the source message with its surrounding context. Search always leads back to evidence.
Year in review
Revisit a year through deterministic totals, rhythms, and people—not generated interpretations.
Privacy
Your archive stays on your Mac.
The production app is built to deny network access. It reads Messages in place, builds a separate local index, and runs both exact and semantic retrieval on-device.
Read the precise privacy boundary- Messages
- Read-only from the database already on your Mac
- Search index
- Stored locally in OpenFolio’s Application Support folder
- Semantic search
- Bundled q8 all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model, about 23 MB
- Fallback
- Exact search stays available if semantic search is not ready
- Account
- Not required
- Updates
- Manual download and app replacement; local data stays in place
Updates
No background updater.
To update, download the newest release and replace OpenFolio in Applications. Your index and settings remain in macOS Application Support, separate from the app bundle.
The code and packaged app enforce a zero-network policy. The final signed-release claim remains gated on PID-attributed traffic testing of the signed artifact on macOS.